Hitwise: Facebook September US Visits Up 194 Percent Year Over Year

Facebook has continued its US surge, according to Hitwise, having grown its market share from 55.2% of all social networks in August to 58.6% last month. That’s a a 194 percent increase over September, 2008, when it had 19.9% of the market. Other social networks also saw some meaningful changes. MySpace dropped from 33.0% in August to 30.2% last month, while Twitter fell from 1.95% to 1.84%. The report’s data on Facebook roughly matches up with our own data about the site, showing that it grew